SUNFLOWER FAMILY 559 
alats Li op. 15%; 
Uropappus peseareasak tee Greene a a 1: 260. 
papt ar. clevelandti Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 494. 1901. 
Microseris lindleyi var. Lhe Hall, Unie, Calif. ah b. Bot. 3: 251. 1907. 
Uropapp indleyt var. leucoc 
Mieroseris heterocarpa Chambers, Contr. Dudley Herb. 4: 286. 1955. 
Glabrous or puberulent, annual herb, 10-60 cm. tall, essentially acaulescent or the leafy — 
sometimes elongated, the he ead borne singly on ses ng naked peduncles. Leaves scurfy, 5-35 c 
long, linear or narrowly elliptic, attenuate, entire or ounatt d with narrow spre 4in g lo bees 
peduncles erect, fo ies a r a scarcely bee See above; head 5-125-flowered, “broa d 
ed or 
n 
within, the lanceolate singe Taiytlavies merle t 2 dew ‘outer “sp = horter, lanceolate or ovate, 
unequal, nearly cal ate; florets white or yellow ; achene 45-12 m. long, gray to brown or 
bluish or reddish violet, often flecked with purple, columnar or stghety « narrower above, more or 
less flared at the apex, the outer scented densely villous ; pappus 9 mm. long, pale or tawny, 
persistent, the 5 lanceolate paleae 4-11 mm. long, each with a stout brown midrib and erose or 
notched apex b ‘a ‘slen 1. #= "18. 
Mg grassy at and hillsides ane on dry slopes, Sonoran Zones; California in the Coast Ranges and Sierra 
Nevada foothills m Lake and Butte Counties to Santa Barbara and Kern nig rie and the islands and cis- 
montane svi ae ‘ecatech California to Lower California. Type loc _— San D , California. April-June. 
This species is an amphiploid derivative of M. lindleyi. nd M. douglasi 
5963. Microseris paludosa 
5964. Microseris sylvatica 
